New York, New York
The photo I published here two days ago of a New York scene prompted an interesting discussion on this really extraordinary city, and its capacity to be so many different things in so many different ways: its capacity to be poetry, tragedy, mythology – or whatever it is we are seeking. So here are three other photos from that recent visit.
Fifth Avenue
Metropolis
Encounter
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November 19, 2012 at 1:48 am
This is a great set. I feel like you really capture the energy and movement of the streets.
November 19, 2012 at 7:30 am
Now I am curious, is that a steam vent in the first one, that is making it all atmospheric? Nice of them to supply that for photographers
November 19, 2012 at 8:58 am
Yes, you get those all over NY. As you say, good for photography.
November 19, 2012 at 9:43 am
I really like the first one. Is that a rickshaw along the line of the pavement. The 2nd, I don’t know, the lines are off somehow. Did you crop it ?. Oddly enough I lived in Golders Green at one point so seeing the Hasidic chatting like that doesn’t say NYC in the first.
November 19, 2012 at 9:44 am
Oh, I believe those vents are for the Subway.
November 19, 2012 at 10:37 am
New York is all three of them of course but, to my eyes at least, it is especially ‘Metropolis’, as in these extraordinary drawings of one of the best architectural renderers of his time, Hugh Ferriss http://tiny.cc/fon0nw
November 19, 2012 at 10:58 am
I love the black and white – it always gives that added sense of bleakness, threat and distance (in photos of this nature). The second shot I really like, reminding me of S&G’s song Bleecker Street, where the ”…fog’s rolling in off the East River bank, like a shroud…fills the alleys where men meet, hides the shepherd from the sheep”. The third shot, of course, denies that sentiment, and provides a counter-point to my previous suggestion.
November 19, 2012 at 4:57 pm
I was in New York in 2001 and got a sore neck from looking up at the buildings. I was also shocked by what seemed to be large numbers of homeless people sitting or sleeping in the subway passages. Warm in there I suppose and hasn’t changed since:
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-02/news/mn-2047_1_mole-people